Big Game Hunting Press Releases and Blogs

Hunters: nonresident/second elk tags are sold out for 2019

Friday, August 16, 2019 - 9:40 AM MDT

Nonresident hunters who plan to buy a deer tag, or resident hunters interested in buying a second tag, should do so quickly.

2019 second controlled hunt drawing information (now closed)

Friday, August 2, 2019 - 4:27 PM MDT

The following tags were available for application for the 2019 second controlled hunt drawing: 1123 tags for deer, 1259 tags for elk, 127 for pronghorn, and 34 for black bear. Drawing results will be released by Aug. 25.

The application period is now closed.

Newly deployed game cameras will improve statewide wolf population estimates

Friday, July 26, 2019 - 4:27 PM MDT

How many wolves are on the landscape in Idaho? That’s an often-asked question that Idaho Fish and Game is aiming to answer using game cameras during a new statewide population monitoring program.

Hunters must buy controlled hunt tags by Aug. 1, or tags will be forfeited

Monday, July 22, 2019 - 8:18 AM MDT

License vendor screen / Photo by Vicky Osborn

Capped elk zone resident tags now on sale, Sawtooth tags and several others zones are sold out

Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - 12:24 PM MDT

Buy tags here or see which capped elk zones still have tags available.

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Capped resident zones

Greg Puffe with his bull elk from the super hunt February 2016

Pick up 2019 controlled hunt drawing tags by August 1

Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 3:17 PM MDT

Fourteen Idaho hunters draw Super Hunt tags, second drawing deadline is Aug. 10

Monday, June 17, 2019 - 10:20 AM MDT

The entry period for the second Super Hunt drawing goes through August 10, where tags for two elk, two deer, two pronghorn, one moose, and one Super Hunt Combo will be drawn.

Unit 33 and 39 Black Bear Seasons End Saturday

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 2:03 PM MDT

Mule deer, radio collar, telemetry, Southwest Region

No surprises, winter survival estimates for mule deer below average, better for elk

Monday, June 10, 2019 - 4:33 PM MDT

Statewide, 42 percent of radio collared fawns survived through the winter. For elk, 69 percent of radio collared calves were alive at the end of May. Idaho Fish and Game biologists monitored 207 mule deer fawns and 201 elk calves that were captured in early winter and fitted with telemetry collars.

Comment period open for negotiated rule proposals for hunting, trapping and big game importation

Friday, June 7, 2019 - 11:37 AM MDT

antelope rifle hunter / Mike Demick, IDFG

Attention hunters: deadline for big game controlled hunt applications is near

Monday, June 3, 2019 - 11:37 AM MDT

Mule deer, white-tailed deer plans available, comment period extended to June 28

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 3:00 PM MDT

mule deer buck laying in a tree medium shot July 2005

See a summary of the mule deer plan and learn how to review and comment

Friday, May 24, 2019 - 2:11 PM MDT

Idaho Fish and Game is asking deer hunters to look at its draft management plans for mule deer and white-tailed deer and provide feedback to the department on the overall concepts of the plans and whether topics are missing that might improve them. The plans describe statewide management directions and strategies.

Youth-only controlled hunts offer exclusive opportunities for big game

Monday, May 20, 2019 - 3:09 PM MDT

Controlled hunt tags are available for many of Idaho's best hunts, including 40 youth-only controlled hunts for big game in the fall. That includes 19 deer hunts, 14 elk hunts, six pronghorn hunts, and one black bear hunt. In total, there are more than 2,300 controlled hunt tags available exclusively for youth.